Yippey - got CF8 installed and working on mac.....but one little problem (help!)

I decided to try and install CF8 on my mac today. I say TRY, because I have tried before and run into problems - and every site on the net was explaining how to configure jRun and connectors etc. with the terminal window and amazingly long text-strings looking like something my 4 year old daughter would type in by accident. Needless to say I'm not comfortable with system "hacking".

So anyways I downloaded the developer edition of CF8 for mac, and started the installation routine. It all went well until I choose to add Apache as the web server to connect to. I could not find anywhere on my mac the configuration directory.

Then after a lot of googling around I came upon a post in Stephen Erats blog. Stephen has created a collection of screen shots explaining how to install CF on mac. Here he explains that he prefers to install with the built in web server, and then configure it to use Apache afterwards. So I did the same. After I finished installing i got a message that the web server connector had failed, and that I needed to manually configure it.

"Oh no - manually like in terminal window" I thought to my self. But in Stephens screenshot was explained that you canuse the ColdFusionLauncher.app to start up a GUI for configuring the web server connector. After choosing "Add" (since no configured web servers were listed) Apache was selected by default, and by pushing the "Browse" button to find the Configuration Directory and looking at Stephens screenshot I easily found what directory to use (was these directories there earlier when I searched the mac for them???).

Ok - I then tried to open http://localhost/index.cfm - just to see what happened - and I got just what I wanted - a nice ColdFusion error message telling me "File not found". I've never been so happy to see a CF error message before. If CF can throw an error, it is running. YEAH!!!

I opened http://localhost/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm and could log into the administrator :)

But here came the little problem. All images within the administrator was replaced with little question marks (Safaris way of saying missing image). And trying to open one of the image files directly (http://localhost/CFIDE/administrator/images/spacer.gif) resulted in a 404 Not Found error. I used Finder to go to the cfide/administrator directory, and there is a images directory there - and all the images seems to be safely inside it.

So can someone please tell me why the images won't show and how to fix it?

PS: A HUGE THANK YOU!!! to Stephen Erat for getting me this far. Without his excellent guide I would not have made it.

UPDATE: I'm also not able to see the server monitor flash (I have FlashPlayer 9 working) or the Applet TreeControl to choose a DB file on the server. Is this related to not seeing the images. I think maybe some kind of permission issues??? I don't have a clue though so all help is highly appreciated.